Public bug reported: When booting a custom CD you should be able to set a number of options as listed in the casper man page
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man7/casper.7.html The ones I am wanting to use are hostname=HOSTNAME , userfullname=USERFULLNAME , username=USERNAME Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file. The problems are : 1. If you boot an x/k/ubuntu desktop CD, and use those options, hostname=foo username=bar userfullname=foobar , none of those options are honored because of the casper scripts in the initramfs >_< #1 My preference would obviously be to honor the man pages, it would be nice if casper worked as it should. #2 If you do not want to allow these boot options, consider updating the ubuntu man pages. It is frustrating when things do not work according to the man page. If you then try to customize the cd https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization 2. The casper scripts over write /etc/casper.conf at some point in using mksquashfs. So even if I edit /etc/casper.conf it is not properly packaged on the resulting iso. So the "solution" is to manually unpackage the initramfs and start hacking through the customizations to the scripts or build a CD from scratch. ** Affects: casper (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/907482 Title: Casper options are not honored by the initramfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/907482/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
